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Today I was reminded that I can't please everyone as a streamer. I was transphobic for how I phrased a conversation about gender abolition and moving past race. These are not stances about ignoring or invalidating the problems or comfort these two ways of identifying can bring.
Instead, they are aspirational - as in, one day I hope that we can live in a world where gender identity and skin color are just a characteristic instead of prescriptivist notions that demand conformity.
On top of that, people are really frazzled by the notion that trans women don't have a meaningfully large advantage over cis women when it comes to sports. Trans women lose those advantages after starting HRT - something that's usually a requirement for trans women to compete.
So many people got angry about this, but it's true. A review of the existing literature shows that A. not enough research has been done in a number of areas and B. the existing research does not indicate that trans women have advantages in competition. https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s40279-016-0621-y
This is why you don't see trans women dominating cis women outside of cherrypicked cases. Cis people don't see trans women as a problem in sports - as long as trans women don't win.
Oh, and if you see an unpublished study floating around by Hilton and Lundberg - it's written by a well-known TERF and is, predictably, largely riddled with biases. https://www.reddit.com/r/GenderCynical/comments/gl0k8j/important_terf_research_fellow_emma_hilton_is/
